KNUST has benefited from forty three projects since the inception of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund, TALIF. Nineteen out of this are regular projects whose proposed total costs range between twenty thousand and two hundred thousand United States Dollars. The remaining twenty four are small projects which cost up to twenty thousand dollars. This was contained in a document signed by the Acting Chairman of the proposal Review Committee, Prof. A. A. Adimado.
A total of Three million, four hundred and thirty-six thousand, nine hundred and forty Ghana Cedis was approved for projects and has been disbursed to KNUST.
So far two million, seven hundred and seventy thousand, nine hundred and twenty Ghana Cedis which represents 80.6 percent of the total fund approved have been utilized.
Twenty three projects have been successfully implemented whiles the remaining twenty are 80 percent complete.
The Teaching and Innovation Fund, TALIF, is a pool of financial resources available to tertiary institutions to carry out new initiatives or to undertake innovations in teaching, research, learning and management. Launched in March, 2004, TALIF is part of the Education Sector Project, ESDeP, of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports.
It is a development tool designed to enhance the ability of the country’s tertiary institutions to fulfill their primary responsibilities, and to tie them more closely to processes of national development.